TexzenNiki

An Aging Haiku III

Was meant to do much
I’m going to need more time
Not yet, not yet, …

~ texzenniki

I will always be an Ally!🌈💜 During the next four years we must stick together! Together we are stronger!
#ResistHate #LoveisLove

Maine Coon Alert---her expression is all of us this morning.

As best you can, ignore him.

An Aging Haiku II

An accidental
Yoga asana is still
Good for the hamstrings

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft takes the clearest picture of Venus ever made

New on MSNBC: Vice President Harris will fly back to Los Angeles today with an all-female U.S. Air Force crew — the first time an all-female crew has operated a C-33.
 
Upon landing, Harris will visit a local fire station and then distribute food to community members impacted by the wildfires.

An Aging Haiku

Being fifty two,
I stand like an Amazon -
I better sit down.

~ texzenniki

Learning about the human #endocannabinoid system is a must, if you want to know how cannabis works & is needed for homeostasis.

I use #cannabis to help with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, chronic migraines & insomnia. You can inhale it, eat it raw, use it sublingually & transdermally through skin.

#NP4P

YouTube video by David Brown Brandi Carlile

Breaking News: Brandi Carlisle will NOT be playing at the inauguration. When asked for comment Brandi said,
"Did I bring shame on my family?
Did it show when I was weak?
Whatever you see, that wasn't me
That won't be me. Oh that won't be me."

youtu.be/zI9jPhaXphQ?...

Advent of LOVE 11🧡

Inside window 11 is my advent calendar ‘The Storyteller' by the incredible artist Rima Staines. I Iove storytelling ~ every Circle I hold has a story.

#advent #storytelling #rimastaines #TheLOVEProject
#DailyRituals #womenscircles
#wuweiliving

Book cover of “Sometimes a Wild God” a poem by Tom Hirons and illustrated by Rima Staines. There is a bear silhouette on the brown cover.

Poems I love
1.
Sometimes a Wild God by Tom Hirons

Artists Support The Children Of Gaza ***

Four artists--Azul Thomé, Rob Hopkins, Rima Staines, and Stu McLellan--are contributing deeply gorgeous work to an auction in support of the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund. (Scroll sideways to see them all.)

Auction runs to March 10--I'd really love to see the donations match the stated value.

book cover for "deenie" by judy blume deenie stands sideways in front of a full length mirror looking at her back in the reflection, there's a chair with a piece of clothing draped over the back in the foreground

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17

#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.” --Judy Blume (born Judy Sussman) (1938- ) As quoted in “Good Advice” (1993) by William Safire, p. 125 #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
--Judy Blume (born Judy Sussman) (1938- )
As quoted in “Good Advice” (1993) by William Safire, p. 125

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.

👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

Photo of Jamila Norman, a Black urban farmer who operates in Atlanta, GA, and hosts the Magnolia Network series "Homegrown."

UHHHHH Jamila Norman of Patchwork City Farms just started following me on IG for no clear reason I'm going to SCREEEEAAAM

URBAN FARMER SENPAI NOTICED ME

wait

is she pitching a picture book and needs an illustrator, cuz,

I feel some of you need this as much as I did.

Remember it takes heat and tempering to make a great steel.

A message of special significance
for Christian & Jewish investors
in weapons & fossil fuel companies

via Musical Left

Book cover of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, with the Newbury Medal. Black and white sketch of two children approaching the steps of a large building, carrying school bags.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 15

"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", a book about black children in Mississippi during the 1930s, where Jim Crow was at its height. Another Newbury winner like Number the Stars, this one had a limited impact as a kid and then when I went back to it later shattered my young adult brain.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10
💙📚
#booksky

book cover. old fashioned watercolor painting of a centaur with wings flying above mountains and a creepy alien face in a bubble beneath him. text reads from top to bottom: The Newbury Award Winning Classic. A Wrinkle In Time. Madeline L'Engle

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

day 14/20

Book cover of ‘The Book of Three’ by Lloyd Alexander. Cover is white with a faint background of a map, on which the words ‘The Book of Three’ are written in a gold medieval Carolingian-like font. There’s a gold strip at the top and bottom of the book, with the author’s name at the top and ‘The Chronicles of Prydain’ at the bottom. There’s a small black image of an old, leather bound book at the top left of the title. The book is noted as a winner of the Newbury Award. Garth Nix’s review is quoted: ‘Lloyd Alexander is the true High King of fantasy’, which is a reference to events of the book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books #BookChallenge #Booksky

Day 9

The cover of a paperback edition of THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by Elizabeth George Speare, featuring its seal as a Newbury Award winner. The cover is orange and shows a windswept young woman with long blonde hair, standing in marsh grasses.

Day 9

A cord of wood from
The Widow Williams
And two empty seats
Where brothers once spoke

(a haiku deviation called “Steven)